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How to Exercise Your Feet!
When it comes to exercising our feet, unless we have pain in our feet or undertake in a hobby or sport which requires we do exercises, they’re not usually a part of the body we think about exercising.
When we exercise our feet we can keep them healthy, keep them strong, keep ourselves moving much better AND also decrease pain.
Feet exercises for seniors - keep your feet functioning well
How often do you exercise your feet?
If you're anything like me, or the other 99% of us, you probably don't exercise them.
The fact is, it's actually a body part we should take some time to do specific exercises for.
Our little old feet, the majority of the time, are housed in shoes meaning we don't work our feet muscles as much as they could be worked. This leads to weakness, which can then lead to further issues.
Also, after decades of wearing shoes the sensory maps on our feet aren't as effective sending information from the ground to our brains, which can increase our falls risk. When the shoes worn each day are narrow, this usually leads to the toes becoming cramped up, leading to further issues.
In this week's video I give you two tips to help keep your feet healthy and go through some great feet exercises which will help strengthen the feet, keep you moving well and decrease your falls risk.
Here's the video:
To skip to the exercise go to 2:35.
FOOT EXERCISE ROUTINE:
Exercise: 1: Self Massage to Foot with Tennis Ball - 30 seconds each foot
Exercise 2: Toe, Foot and Ankle Stretch - 30 seconds each side
Exercise 3: Ankle Circles - 8 circles clockwise, 8 circles anti clockwise -each foot
Exercise 4: Toe Raises - x 10 each foot.
Exercise 5: Toe Raise + Spread x 10 each foot
Exercise 6: Seated Calf Raise x 10
Exercise 7: Seated Toe Raise x 10
Exercise 8: Toe Flexions x 10
ENJOY these exercises!
Do your best with it, let me know how you go and ask any questions, any time!
Stay Active! Stay Happy!
- Mike